Program

(as at March 6, 2009)

Monday, March 9

Time	Title	Speaker

08:30	Registration
09:00	Welcome	J. Melnick
Extragalactic Surveys
09:05	Review: Large Cosmological Surveys	J. Miralda-Escude
09:40	Extragalactic Surveys with VST and VISTA	K. Kuijken
10:00	DES	R. Nichol
10:20	PAU	E. Gaztanaga
10:40	BOSS	W. Percival
11:00	Coffee Break
11:20	Spectroscopic surveys from space	A. Cimatti
11:40	zCOSMOS	S. Lilly
12:00	VIPERS	L. Guzzo
12:20	Limitations and needs of current spectroscopic redshift surveys	A. Renzini
12:40	Future ESO Galaxy surveys	T. Shanks
13:00	Lunch Break
14:15	Next generation deep and ultra-deep galaxy redshift surveys	O. Le Fevre
14:30	Future high-multiplex spectroscopy needs for resolved stellar populations in dwarf galaxies as revealed by the large program DART	G. Battaglia
14:45	Galaxy and Mass assembly	J. Liske
15:00	Spectral requirements for a wide area XMM cosmology survey	M. Pierre
15:15	Spectroscopic follow-up of high-z dusty galaxies discovered by ALMA	E. van Kampen
15:30	Colour and luminosity-dependence of galaxy clustering to faint luminosities	J. Loveday
15.45	The power of the multiplex and tilted slit of VIMOS to derive kinematics	L. Tresse
16:00	Coffee Break
Future projects for extragalactic science
16:20	LSST and Europe	R. McMahon
16:40	WFMOS	R. Nichol
17:00	A 5 sqdeg spectrograph at an 8m telescope: how and why (LBT/VLT) Also available: Animation of the spectrograph layout (QT, 6.2 Mb)	A. Fontana
17:15	Discussion
18:15	Welcome reception at ESO

Time	Title	Speaker
09:00	Welcome 2	J. Melnick
Galactic Surveys
09:05	ESO/ESA Working Group recommendations for Galactic Surveys	A. Helmi
09:40	Galactic Surveys with VST and VISTA	J. Drew
10:00	Unraveling the Structure and Kinematics of the Milky Way with RAVE	M. Steinmetz
10:20	LAMOST	Y. Zhao
10:40	The GAIA spectrograph: synergies with future large multiplex instruments	D. Katz
11:00	Coffee Break
11:30	Multi-object spectroscopy as a compelement for GAIA	A. Recio-Blanco
11:50	The Galactic-Bulge Survey: categorizing the plethora of faint X-ray sources	P. Jonker
12:10	VMC - The VISTA survey of the Magellanic System	M.R. Cioni
12:30	Determining AGB mass loss histories form Planetary Nebulae: hexabundle MOS of Magellanic Cloud PNe	M. Roth
12:45	RAVE: important insights to be used for planning of the next generation multiple object spectrographs	T. Zwitter
13:00	Lunch Break
Plans for the future
14:15	Proposed VMOS upgrades: Review of VIMOS and its future	F. Selman
14:40 15:05 15:30	Proposed FLAMES upgrades: Fireball: 3D spectroscopic survey of 10,000 galaxies at z ~ 0.1 - 0.2 using hexabundles on FLAMES UltraPhot Super-Giraffe	J. Bland-Hawthorn F. Roques M. Lehnert
15:50	A very versatile, large A-Omega, fiber-fed spectrograph design	I. Parry
16:10	Coffee Break
16:30	Conference Summary: Scientific requirements for European high-multiplex spectroscopic facilities	Y. Mellier
17:00	Discussion
18:00	End of Conference